Explore Quotes on Lying

Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.

I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.

The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.